that california has, maybe someone might think that's a very good quality to have in the deal with sacramento. but as you mentioned, the "new york times" reported earlier this year that meg whitman, when she was a top head at ebay, had shoved an employee. that employee received a settlement in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. that employee, though, it should be noted went back to work for ebay. so this is the second employee that we've received -- we now know that there was a complaint about whitman. how this impacts the governor's race, we do not know. but certainly the campaign has been doing its best to deal with damage control and get their message out. >> all right, mark. whitman's campaign released this statement. they blasted gloria alred saying with the polls tied it comes as no surprise that the morning after a successful debate for meg that the sleaze machine of the political left is now focusing on the politics of personal destruction. very strongly worded statement there, mark. >> very strong words. and what the meg whitman campaign is pointing to is that gloria allred has gi